Exempel på umlaut

• An elegant featural statement of umlaut phonology may well be possible, but it is not our concern here.

• Lengthening is a change in the length feature (and\or the tense feature) whilst umlaut fronts back vowels.

• There is also a minor subclass which has a stem alternation other than umlaut.

• In contrast, umlaut is neither a separate segment nor stem final and is thus less salient.

• All of the former are reconstructed as having had a suffix containing a 'high front unround' segment which 'triggered' the umlaut reflected in these spellings.

• The same applies to the morphophonological alternations vowel lengthening and umlaut, which are discussed in sections 4.1 and 4.2 below.

• The realization of umlaut is more complex than a fronting of back vowels.

• An anonymous reviewer points out that it has been argued that 'vowel harmony is demarcative, while umlaut is compensatory'.

• Contrary to what one might expect, it is not the case that both vowels in a diphthong are fronted when umlaut is applied.

• There is also a handful of nouns which undergo umlaut on one of their back vowels, but which have other back vowels which are unaffected.

• Although we provide formal accounts of final consonant devoicing, schwa and umlaut, they are not the focus of the present enterprise.

• The realisation of umlaut in the diphthongs is especially interesting.

• The class of nouns which undergoes umlaut cannot be determined by independent synchronic linguistic factors, be they phonological, syntactic or semantic.